Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov (russian: Михаи́л Лео́нович Гаспа́ров, April 13, 1935 in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

– November 7, 2005 in Moscow) was a Russian

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined ...

and translator, renowned for his studies in

classical philology Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Class ...

and the history of versification, and a member of the informal Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1957 and worked at the Gorky Institute of World Literature, the Russian State University for the Humanities, and the Russian Language Institute in

. In 1992 Gasparov was elected a full member of the Russian Academy of Science. In 1995, Mikhail Gasparov was awarded the

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. In 1997, he shared the Little Booker Prize with Aleksandr Goldstein for their publications analysing Russian literature from a historical-philosophical point of view. In 1999, Gasparov was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize for his essay collection ''Notes and excerpts'' (russian: Записи и выписки). Gasparov was also a poet. He published translations of classical and modern European poetry, yet only one of his own poems was published during his lifetime. Gasparov was a member of the editorial board of ''Literary Monuments'' (russian: Литературные памятники) book series, journals '' Journal of Ancient History'' (russian: Вестник древней истории), ''Literary Research'' (russian: Литературоведение), '' Elementa'' (United States), and '' Rossica Romana'' (Italy). Mikhail Gasparov published about 300 articles, translations and other works, including the monographs ''Fable in Antiquity'' (russian: Античная литературная басня, 1971), ''Modern Russian Versification'' (russian: Современный русский стих. Метрика и ритмика, 1974), ''Overview of the History of Russian Versification'' (russian: Очерк истории русского стиха: Метрика, ритмика, рифма, строфика, 1984), ''Overview of the History of European Versification'' (russian: Очерк истории европейского стиха, 1989). During his last years Gasparov was actively engaged in publishing the collected works of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. Commemorating Mikhail Gasparov, the Russian State University for the Humanities organises annual conferences dedicated to the main fields of Gasparov's academic research --

and Russian literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries.http://www.litkarta.ru/russia/moscow/persons/gasparov-m/ Михаил ГАСПАРОВ – Биография

Publications

*Gasparov M. L.
A History of European Versification
' (transl. by G. S. Smith & Marina Tarlinskaja). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. . :*West, M. L
Review of ''A History of European Versification'' by M. L. Gasparov; G. S. Smith; M. Tarlinskaja
'' The Classical Review'', New Series, Vol. 47, No. 2 (1997), pp. 431-432. :*Pensom, Roger
Review of ''A History of European Versification'' by M. L. Gasparov; G. S. Smith; M. Tarlinskaya
'' The Modern Language Review'', Vol. 94, No. 1 (Jan., 1999), pp. 284-285.

Articles in periodicals

* * *(with M. Lotman, P. Rudnev, M. Tarlinskaja) * * *(with M. Tarlinskaja) * * * * *

Contributions to books

* 'Columbus’s Egg, or the Structure of the Novella', in ''Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics'', ed. I. Kliger, B. Maslov. New York, 2016, 392-396 * 'An Anthology without Names: 88 Contemporary Poems Selected by Z. Gippius', in ''Liber, fragmenta, libellus prima e dopo Petrarca: in ricordo di D'Arco Silvio Avalle: seminario internazionale di studi, Bergamo, 23-25 ottobre 2003'', ed. F. Lo Monaco, L. C. Rossi, N. Scaffai. Firenze, 2006, 405-409 * 'Quantitative Methods in Russian Metrics: Achievements and Prospects', in ''Metre, Rhythm, Stanza, Rhyme'', ed. G. Smith. Colchester, 1980. (Russian Poetics in Translation, 7), 1–19 * 'Light and Heavy Verse Lines', in ''Metre, Rhythm, Stanza, Rhyme'', ed. G. Smith. Colchester, 1980. (Russian Poetics in Translation, 7), 31–44 * 'Towards an Analysis of Russian Inexact Rhyme', in ''Metre, Rhythm, Stanza, Rhyme'', ed. G. Smith. Colchester, 1980. (Russian Poetics in Translation, 7), 61–75

Bibliography

* Wachtel, Michael (2006)
Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov (13 April 1935-7 November 2005)
'' Slavonica'' 12 (1), 73–76. * Emerson, C. ' In Honor of Mikhail Gasparov’s Quarter-Century of Not Liking Bakhtin: Pro and Contra', in ''Poetics. Self. Place. Essays in Honor of Anna Lisa Crone '', ed. C. O’Neil, N. Boudreau, S. Krive (Slavica Publishers, 2007), 26-49 * Kirschbaum, H. (2008)
The Poetics of Paraphrase: The Positivist Postmodernism in Mikhail Gasparov’s “Experimental Translations”
, in '' Russian Language Journal '' 58 (1): 47-68 * ''Frontiers in Comparative Prosody. In memoriam: Mikhail Gasparov '', ed. M. Lotman, M.-K. Lotman. Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, 2011 * Emerson, C. (2016)
Creative ways of not liking Bakhtin: Lydia Ginzburg and Mikhail Gasparov
. ''Bakhtiniana'' 11 (1): 39–69

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